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vToolbelt – August 2022

byArron King 08.18.2022 vToolBelt

Hot Topics

  • A few security advisories have been released recently for VMware products.  If you operate any of these please take a few moments to review the information to see if it is applicable to your environment:
    • Workspace ONE Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager (including vRealize Automation) – VMSA-2022-0021
    • vCenter Server – VMSA-2022-0018
    • vSphere ESXi – VMSA-2022-0020
  • Sphere 6.5 and 6.7 are heading into End of General Support in just a few months – October 15th, 2022.  If your environment is still running these versions – now is the time to plan your upgrade.  Check out this Upgrade Planning Guide to help you get started.

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VMware Explore
August 29 – September 1, 2022
In-Person at the Moscone Center
San Francisco, California

Same event – new name!  VMworld has become VMware Explore!

There are a variety of ways to pay for a pass.  You can use PSO Credits (24 credits per pass).  These can be purchased via OARnet.  You can also pay with a credit card and there are 2 early bird discount periods. Please refer to the link below for details.

Check out the Content Catalog to start planning your sessions!

Important Date

  • July 19th – Breakout Session scheduling begins

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Product Support Watch

The following products are nearing the End of General Support.  You can find the full list on the VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix.

vSphere – vCenter and ESXi

  • 6.5 – 10/15/22
  • 6.7 – 10/15/22

VMware Tools

  • Tools 10.2.x – 12/14/22

vSAN

  • 6.5, 6.6, 6.7 – 10/15/22

NSX 

  • NSX-V (all versions) – General Support ended January 16, 2022 – Customers should migrate to NSX-T

Horizon View / Workspace ONE

  • Dynamic Environment Manager 10/2006 – 8/11/22
  • Dynamic Environment Manager 10/2009 – 10/15/22
  • App Volumes 2.18 – 9/16/22
  • App Volumes 4 2009 – 10/15/22
  • App Volumes 4 2012 – 1/7/23
  • Identity Manager 3.3.4 – 8/4/22
  • Identity Manager 3.3.5 – 11/20/22
  • Workspace ONE UEM Console 2102 – 10/14/22
  • vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon 6.7 – 10/15/22

Networking

  • HCX 4.2 – 8/5/22

vRealize

  • vRealize Automation 7.6 – 9/1/22
  • vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 – 9/1/22
  • vRealize Automation – 8/2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 8.6, 8.6.1 – 10/31/22
  • vRealize Automation – 8.6.2 – 1/18/23
  •  vRealize Orchestrator – 8/2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 8.6 – 10/31/22
  • vRealize Orchestrator – 8.6.1 – 11/19/22
  • vRealize Orchestrator – 8.6.2 – 1/18/23
  • vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 – 10/31/22
  • Log Insight 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 – 10/31/22
  • Network Insight – 5.3, 6.0, 6.1 – 10/31/22
  • vRealize Operations 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 – 10/31/22
  • vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.7 – 10/15/22

 


Notes from the Field

If you are upgrading to vSphere 7, don’t forget to upgrade your licenses in the VMware Customer Connect portal.  If you haven’t done this in a while, you can review on the steps here.

PowerCLI 12.7 has been released.  A few highlights of the changes:

  • The VUM module has been ported to PowerShell 7 and now supports Linux and MacOS
  • A number of improvements have been made to the NSX cmdlets
  • Horizon module now supports Horizon 8.4
  • vSAN module has been improved with new capabilities

VMware TAM Lab – This is a YouTube Channel with content created by TAMs for VMware Customers.  There are videos that span a number of topics. There are two I wanted to highlight today:

  • Moving vSphere Authentication from LDAP to LDAPS – If you are still using LDAP, you should update your configuration to LDAPS or considering changing to ADFS.  This session will help you move to LDAPS
  • vSphere 7 with ADFS Authentication – vSphere 7 provides the ability to join your vCenter to AD and stop using IWA or LDAPS

Understanding the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Terminology – If you are trying to get a handle on how VMware can implement Kubernetes you might give this article a read.

Booting ESX hosts from SD-Cards

On 4/27/22, VMware published updated guidance on using SD Cards. The short version is “VMware will continue supporting USB/SD card as a boot device through the 8.0 product release, including the update releases. Both installs and upgrades will be supported on USB/SD cards. The change from the previous guidance is that SD/USB as a standalone device will now be supported on previously certified server platforms”.  KB 85685 has the full details.  Migrating away from SD cards is still recommended.

  • A TAM Customer webinar in December 2021 covered this extensively. If you were unable to attend the webinar live, you can watch the recording.
  • A VMware engineer has written a blog article on how to move from booting ESX from SD-Cards to using locally attached  SSDs.
  • KB 83376 – discusses the issues that can arise when the SD card boot device has exhausted its write capability.  This KB also describes a work around VMware has developed to allow low endurance SD Cards to work with vSphere 7 Update 2 and later.  It involves a manual one-time config change which moves certain highly accessed files to a RAM Disk. vSphere 7.0 U3 automated this process.
  • While this should help with vSphere 7.x, VMware guidance for future versions of vSphere is to move to higher performance/endurance boot devices in a future budget or your next hardware refresh plan.

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